What be these? (spoiler deluxe)

[Jesus Lincoln]

I was wondering about somethings at the end of the game. There were 2 things that i was very intrested by, when you are on your second "tram ride" you see a very very large...elephant? It had about 4-6 legs, it was the same color and style as striders and dropships, mabye it was something they were going to add, but never got around to putting it In-game

Also, you see this twice, the large "thing" that Breen is talking to when the teleport goes wrong, and when you step into his office. The leader of the combine, secret lover, will HL3 answer this?!


I also have an answer, many people were wondering about those odd pale skinny guys who you saw in your "tram" rides. You usually saw them working on computers, fixing things. They are the same as something in the Beta (i know, i know) They're called Stalkers, in the beta, they were these evill little bastards that had lasers and were hard to shoot. They had the same model (pale skin, tourtured face, knives for legs) so i guess that around E3 they decided to take them out....along with the zooming assault rifle...the sniper rifle....the portable thumper...the stunstick...the ickpick...the AR1...the molotov cocktail...

 

[BRODIEMAN2k4]

The large "thing" looked kinda like the final boss from HL1

 

[Lanthanide]

Looked more like the boss from OpFor.

I guess it's not however because that race could teleport at will, whereas the combine cannot (how come they have a portal...? that bit confused me).

 

[Delicious Bass]

i thought that thing looked like a gigantic bee

 

[Crumpler]

Looked to me like a cross between some kind of insect (like a bee), and elephant, and a funnel.

 

[chrisglick]

Aw ****, those f'ing laser jerks? I'm glad they got the ax. They were mean.

The elephant and the mopdified ant lions are stuff the combine is working on. The combine absorbs good animals and adds them to thier asrenel.

That big thing is a 'Human like being that becomes dependent on its technology' after a long time of evolution.

 

[Darkflame]

I would of thought it was what the admin was talking too, ya know the combine overlord or something like that?

 

[nw909]

Those giant things are called Synths, heres an explanation:

Crab-synth and mortar-synth:
You have only the briefest of glimpses of these strange, inhuman contraptions: self-replicating and part-replacing synths, the backbone of the Combine's subsequent armies. Crab Synthswith their sharp mandibles are close quarter ripping fiends, while Mortar Synths utilize biomechanical armaments and shells to wreak havoc on the humans they are about to destroy. Note: spotted on the final "coffin-ride"

That big ass slug with a gas mask is the Combine Advisor

Combine Advisor (slug/maggot/guy returning from the dentist/other misconception): Behold the real face of the Combine. A giant, green, sluglike entity with the gift of telekinesis appears for the briefest of moments on Breen's computer monitors within the Citadel.